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U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition)

Founding the Federal Union

Grand Convention at Philadelphia, May to September, 1787, Quill Project 2021 Edition.

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U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition)

Committees (14)

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The Convention
Rules Committee
Committee of the Whole House
First Committee on Representation
Second Committee on Representation
Third Committee on Representation
Committee of Detail
Committee on State Debts and Militia
Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation
Committee on Commercial Discrimination
Committee on Interstate Comity and Bankruptcy
Committee on Postponed Matters
Committee of Style and Arrangement
Committee on Sumptuary Legislation

Delegations (13)

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Connecticut Delegation
Delaware Delegation
Georgia Delegation
Maryland Delegation
Massachusetts Delegation
New Hampshire Delegation
New Jersey Delegation
New York Delegation
North Carolina Delegation
Pennsylvania Delegation
South Carolina Delegation
Virginia Delegation
Offices of the Convention

Individuals (59)

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Abraham Baldwin
Richard Basset
Gunning Bedford
John Blair
William Blount
David Brearley
Jacob Broom
Pierce Butler
Daniel Carroll
George Clymer
William Richardson Davie
Jonathan Dayton
John Dickinson
Oliver Ellsworth
William Few
Thomas Fitzsimmons
Benjamin Franklin
Joseph Fry
Elbridge Gerry
Nicholas Gilman
Nathaniel Gorham
Alexander Hamilton
William Churchill Houston
William Houstoun
Jared Ingersol
William Jackson
Daniel of St Thomas Jenifer
William Samuel Johnson
Rufus King
John Langdon
John Lansing
William Livingston
James Madison
Alexander Martin
Luther Martin
George Mason
James McClurg
James McHenry
John Francis Mercer
Thomas Mifflin
Gouverneur Morris
Robert Morris
William Paterson
William Pierce
Charles Pinckney
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Edmund Randolph
George Read
John Rutledge
Jacob Shallus
Roger Sherman
Richard Dobbs Spaight
Caleb Strong
George Washington
Nicholas Weaver
Hugh Williamson
James Wilson
George Wythe
Robert Yates